Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs, sentence 7

City pigeons come from wild rock doves, which still nest on sea cliffs in places like Scotland and Ireland; buildings and ledges are their cliffs.

Who acts: City pigeons, wild rock doves, buildings · What happens: come, nest, be · To what, where: wild rock doves, sea cliffs, cliffs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pigeons: head bobbing, homing and city cliffs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (City pigeons, wild rock doves, buildings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	City	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pigeons	compound
2	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 doves	case
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 doves	amod
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doves	compound
7	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nest	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 nest	nsubj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 nest	advmod
11	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 doves	acl:relcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 cliffs	case
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cliffs	compound
14	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 nest	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 places	case
16	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 nest	obl
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 Scotland	case
18	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 places	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Ireland	cc
20	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Scotland	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 buildings	punct
22	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 cliffs	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ledges	cc
24	ledges	ledge	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 buildings	conj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 cliffs	cop
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 cliffs	nmod:poss
27	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	City pigeons		wild rock doves			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dove=Initial_Location
2	nest	present	wild rock doves		sea cliffs	still	in places like Scotland and Ireland	vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	buildings and ledges	pigeons's cliffs				tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs.lesson:7.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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